Following a nine-year absence, former account executive Lisa Rudy (pictured) returns to Detroit's alt-weekly to replace David Jost, who resigned as publisher last month. Rudy says Metro Times is her kind of paper: “I like everything it stands for. It’s just so community-based. It's hip, but it's real. I like the kind of reader that is interested in Metro Times, readers that like to be challenged.”
Automobile manufacturers are expected to spend $1.3 billion in online advertising this year, up 15% from 2002, according to a new study from Borrell Associates Inc. of Hampton Roads, Va. At the local level, dealers are now spending $2 on interactive advertising for every $3 they spend on local television.
Ian MacKaye's Fugazi has survived 15 years in the music biz without ever coming close to selling out to a major label, all the while holding firm to the quaint notion that it's actually possible to give one's fans more than their money's worth. What could possibly be wrong with that? Plenty, says Michael Little, who complains that the band has "cast a long pall over the Washington, D.C., music scene" and saddled the area with humorless, moralizing music made by people who don't understand that rock is supposed to be hedonistic, degenerate, and lewd.
As the American population grows older and as new car prices rise (even with incentives), the average buyer of new vehicles has ventured far into middle age. Among the major automakers, the average buyer's age ranges from 41 years old for the Volkswagen and Mitsubishi to 64 for the Buick.
If the print media were an ancient civilization, it would be the Gauls, getting pummeled into souffle by Caesar's legions. If it were a basketball team, it would be those patsies that always get clobbered by the Harlem Globetrotters by 100 points. And if print were a man, it would be Lou Costello, getting slapped around by a taller, better-looking guy who always got the girl. The Romans, the Globetrotters and, hey, Abbott would, of course, be broadcast television.
City Paper Staff Writer Anna Ditkoff thought the cops on her front porch were there because of trouble on her block. It turns out they were there for her, which led to an up- close and all-too-personal look at life inside Baltimore's Central Booking intake facility, where overcrowding is standard, medical attention is hard to come by, and no one on the other side of the glass will look you in the eye.
Voters in Democratic districts of California relied mostly on the televised debate and network and cable news to make their decisions in the gubernatorial recall. Those in GOP districts more often sought out information from newspapers and cyberspace.
Although Velocity is aimed at young adults, it is "not being positioned as a direct competitor" to the 13-year-old AAN-member Louisville Eccentric Observer, claims Ed Manassah, publisher of the local Gannett daily responsible for the new paper. Nevertheless, Manassah sends a shot across LEO's bow when he claims the young-adult "marketplace" is "not being serviced." The new publication's name "is a play off the word `city,' but then there's also the connection to a faster pace and speed," the paper's new editor explains helpfully.
For the first three weeks of the season, the level of men 18-34 using television is down 8% in prime time. Viewing levels in the demo are down in other dayparts as well and across the broadcast networks. That's with one exception: baseball- heavy Fox, which is up 3% in the demo in prime time but doesn't come close to accounting for the sharp overall decline.
Major magazines are generally introduced with a great deal of fanfare: news releases, lavish parties and bold statements about the paradigm shift the new publication represents. The much awaited MTV magazine will land a bit more quietly this week. There will be on-air and on-Web promotion, but for the most part, MTV is letting the first issue speak for itself.
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